Blood in the Eastern Palace: The Deposed Empress Is Reborn and Topples the Throne

In her previous life, she was the legitimate daughter of the Imperial Tutor, famed throughout the capital. She spent ten years pouring her heart and soul into helping an exiled prince claim the throne.

In return, on the eve of her coronation as empress, all 108 members of her family were beheaded and their bodies put on public display! Her half-sister severed the tendons in her hands and feet, then forced poison wine down her throat. She died a wretched death in the Cold Palace.

When she opened her eyes again, she had become a lowly mute woman, her face disfigured, in the most filthy place in the realm: the Imperial Music Bureau.

From the start, she’s trapped in a death sentence, while the whole capital waits to laugh at her?

Shen Jinghua wipes the blood from her face and sneers. If she was the one who built this empire, then she’ll start again from the Imperial Music Bureau. She’ll build an underground empire and tear this world apart piece by piece!

Become respectable? Escape?

No. She’ll use the lowliest identity in the realm to set the most ruthless traps. She takes in women who have suffered, allies with a battle-hardened princess, and builds Great Chu’s first intelligence and assassination network, “Night Owl,” manipulating the court officials in the palm of her hand.

When the scum of an emperor and his poisonous concubine finally realize that the “Dark Emperor, First Under Heaven,” who drained the treasury, controlled the court, and even made the brutal regent willingly bow his head and hand over his blade, is none other than the discarded woman from the Cold Palace, they go completely mad!

“I gave you this empire, and I can make you kneel as you give it back!”